Brus want to vote from camps

Guwahati | Wednesday | 14th November, 2018

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"We are waiting for the Election Commission's decision. They have been voting through postal ballots in their relief camps since 1997.The Election Commission, which is under pressure from the majority Mizos to not allow the Brus to cast their votes in Tripura again but anywhere in Mizoram this time, is yet to decide on the issue. GUWAHATI: The 11,000-odd Bru voters of Mizoram living in relief camps of Tripura , who are at the centre of a raging controversy over their polling location, on Tuesday decided to fight till the last for their rights to cast their votes from their relief camps and not in Mizoram.On Friday, the displaced minority Bru voters will hold a rally in the Kanchanpur area of Tripura to press for their demand. Today, we have decided that we will take out a rally on November 16 and march for 10 km from our camps to Dasda block where we will submit a memorandum to the Centre and the Election Commission through the Dasda block development officer with a request for setting up polling booths inside our camps in Tripura," said Mizoram Displaced Bru People 's Forum (MDBPF) general secretary Bruno Msha..